Denise Vargas is the Executive Director of El Hogar in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. The organization’s mission is to provide children from vulnerable conditions with the opportunity to become future leaders. She was born and raised in Tegucigalpa and has a BA from Dartmouth and an MBA. We talk about the state of wonder that poetry provides her, and how poetry is her way to express things that are hard to say in any another way and a way, as she says “to make the fleeting permanent.” She describes her poetic process and reads from her own beautiful work. We discover the deep connection between her poetry and the work she does in Honduras to help children move out of the shadows and shine their own light.